CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto January 17, 2022 15:22:00
The ukrainian government will feel forced to go into somehow stabilize the situation. that will be what the russians, what moscow would claim is the quote, unquote attack. and they have to then react, respond counterattack. that's the word peskov used. so the idea is create a crisis, force the ukrainian government to act first, then you go in in the guise of rescuing russian nationals or something like that. and the key here is not for russia to even enter ukraine. the key is to bleed the ukrainian government, to bleed it of resources, of money, energy, and keep ukraine in a kind of permanentl...